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43 stories from Planck Standard. Latest: November 9, 2026.
A federal judge in Seattle issued a 14-day order stopping the Justice Department from demanding officials segregate the ballots or threatening prosecution for counting them.
About 2,000 votes separate Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith and Democrat Scott Colom, and the state has no recount provision and no central tally of outstanding ballots.
Neither Christopher Luxon's National Party nor Chris Hipkins' Labour won a clear mandate, and final results will not be known until Nov. 27.
Judge Sharon Gleason ruled the Justice Department cannot bring the suit and said the relief it sought would likely violate Alaskans' right to a secret ballot. DOJ says it will appeal.
The defeated presidential candidate landed near Miami hours after Argentina said he crossed its border, as Lula mocked the departure of a man with 'nothing to hide.'
Turnout topped 77%, the highest in more than two decades, and Netanyahu led Eisenkot in the party tally even as opposition groups combined drew more votes than his bloc.
Lula won just over 51% in Sunday's runoff. Flávio Bolsonaro now says he will seek to have the victory disqualified, and a court has ordered him to surrender his passports.
Serbia's strongman said the Students' List would take 135 to 140 of 250 seats, ending a grip on power that began with a train-station disaster and two years of street protests.
'I am here. With you,' the opposition leader wrote on X as her team called the return a step toward free elections. No vote has been scheduled under acting President Delcy Rodríguez.
Polls show the race within the margin of error, with Bolsonaro narrowly ahead and 10% of voters still open to changing their minds.
WatchThe 45-year-old senator and Trump ally beat the polls Sunday, finishing ahead of the 80-year-old president, who will now fight for a fourth term in a three-week sprint.
Ulf Kristersson asked to be relieved of office so the speaker can start building a new government. Magdalena Andersson's Social Democrats are the largest party with 99 seats, but her four-party bloc disagrees on taxes, nuclear power and who gets a cabinet seat.
Magdalena Andersson's four-party opposition holds a hair-thin lead over Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson's right-wing bloc. In 2022 an exit poll showed the same thing, and the right won.
Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson wants to bring the Sweden Democrats into government for the first time. The last polls put Magdalena Andersson's center-left bloc narrowly ahead, 50.8% to 47.6%, with the gap closing.
Three weeks before the first round of the presidential election, Lula's main challenger is under investigation for corruption, money laundering and tax evasion over 61 million reais tied to an unreleased film called 'The Dark Horse.'
Ulrich Siegmund, 35, could become the first far-right state premier in Germany's postwar history. Every party but one has refused to govern with him, which makes an outright majority his only route.
Brasília refused entry to Riley Barnes and Samuel Samson, saying the mission was a renewed attempt to delegitimize Brazil's electronic voting system ten weeks before Lula faces Flávio Bolsonaro.
Incumbent Carlos Vila Nova took nearly 56 percent of the vote in the tiny West African island nation, clearing the threshold needed to win outright and denying challenger Nito d’Abreu a second round.
Abelardo de la Espriella, a political newcomer backed by President Trump, narrowly defeated leftist Iván Cepeda in a runoff, becoming the most-voted candidate in Colombian history.
Former Biden health secretary Xavier Becerra edged into the top spot in California's jungle primary, lining up a November showdown with Republican commentator Steve Hilton.
The former interior secretary crushed her rival 72% to 28% and now enters the November race as the clear front-runner in a state where Republicans hold no statewide office.
Early results gave Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan's Civil Contract party a commanding lead in a vote watched closely by both Moscow and the West.
City councilwoman pulls into second place ahead of November runoff against incumbent Mayor Karen Bass.
Peruvians went to the polls Sunday in a polarizing presidential runoff pitting conservative Keiko Fujimori against leftist Roberto Sanchez, a contest that could reshape the country's direction for years.
Sunday's presidential runoff pits the right-wing daughter of jailed ex-president Alberto Fujimori against a leftist congressman, with the latest poll showing the race a statistical dead heat.
The former Attorney General was long dismissed in the contest until Eric Swalwell's abrupt departure created an unexpected path for the experienced Democrat.
Government forces and opposition-allied militias traded mortar and anti-tank fire across the capital before planned protests against President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, whose term expired last month.
Trump-backed influencer Spencer Pratt has turned wildfire anger and public-safety fears into an unlikely challenge to Mayor Karen Bass, who also faces a progressive bid from Councilmember Nithya Raman.
Right-wing outsider Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly led the first round with 43.7% to leftist Senator Ivan Cepeda's 40.9%, setting up a June 22 runoff that could redefine Colombia's relationship with Washington.
Sunday's election results could signal another victory for the conservative movement sweeping across Latin America.
Keiko Fujimori faces Roberto Sánchez in election following delays and protests that have highlighted deep divisions in the South American nation.
Riding a wave of economic nationalism and anxiety over Iran war-driven oil prices, Carney’s Liberals secured 174 seats in Canada’s 343-seat parliament and on Tuesday announced the immediate suspension of the 14.3-cent-per-liter federal fuel levy, saving the average household an estimated this year.
The former Bank of England governor has won a majority in the Canadian Parliament, though critics are questioning the election results.
Magyar's stunning defeat of the longtime prime minister could dramatically ease Hungary's tensions with the European Union after years of confrontation.
Hungary's longtime authoritarian leader acknowledges electoral loss after 16 years in power, as opposition candidate rides wave of anti-corruption sentiment to victory.
Péter Magyar's Tisza party holds a commanding polling lead over Viktor Orbán's Fidesz ahead of the April 12 parliamentary election, with consequences stretching from the EU to the war in Ukraine.
Trump-endorsed conservative defeats Democratic challenger in Northwest Georgia district, dashing hopes for upset.
WatchTaylor's 20-point margin reshapes Wisconsin's highest court for years, giving liberals a supermajority until at least 2030.
The Vice President addressed an election rally in Budapest days before Hungary's April 12 parliamentary vote, the most competitive election Orban's Fidesz party has faced in over a decade.
Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, whose approval soared after she publicly rejected Trump's demands to cede Greenland, goes to the polls Tuesday with her center-left bloc holding a nine-seat polling lead.
Grégoire defeated conservative Rachida Dati 50.5% to 41% in Sunday's runoff, pledging to continue Paris's transformation into a greener, more pedestrian-friendly city.
Oral arguments in Watson v. Republican National Committee on March 23 could eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods in at least 15 states before the November 2026 midterms, affecting millions of voters including military personnel serving overseas.
Republicans launched days of around-the-clock Senate floor speeches on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act, which would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register and photo ID to cast any ballot, though the bill remains likely to fail a 60-vote filibuster threshold.